Honeywell

Honeywell is a large U.S. aerospace and defense contractor based in Morristown, New Jersey. Honeywell Aerospace makes flight safety and landing systems as well as jet engines, including engines for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) such as those used in Predators which fire Hellfire missiles. Honeywell also makes automation and control equipment used in home and industrial heating. It also makes car products for consumers such as Prestone and FRAM.

Norway shuns ties to Honeywell
The country of Norway has removed Honeywell along with six other corporations from its pension fund because of the corporations' presumed involvement in the production of nuclear weapons. The six other corporations are BAE Systems of Britain, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, United Technologies, Finmeccanica of Italy, and Safran of France.

Most of the companies, including Honeywell, would not confirm to Norway's central bank the production of nuclear weapons components but Norway's Finance Ministry said verification was obtained by company news releases and sources like Jane's Information Group which publishes military information.

Political contributions
Honeywell gave $797,343 to federal candidates in the 2006 election through its political action committee - 38% to Democrats, 61% to Republicans, and 1% ($8,500) to independent Joseph Lieberman (I-CT).

Lobbying
The company spent $2,880,000 for lobbying in the first half of 2007. $700,000 went to seven lobbying firms with the remainder being spent using in-house lobbyists.

Leadership
Accessed November 2007 (2006 pay):
 * David M. Cote - Chairman and CEO, $25,760,000
 * Adriane M. Brown - President and CEO, Transportation Systems
 * Nance K. Dicciani - President and CEO, Specialty Materials
 * Roger Fradin - President and CEO, Automation and Control Solutions
 * Rob Gillette - President and CEO, Aerospace
 * David J. Anderson - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, $7,623,081
 * Rhonda Germany - Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
 * Larry E. Kittelberger - Senior Vice President, Technology and Operations, $6,401,052
 * Peter M. Kreindler - Senior Vice President, General Counsel
 * Mark James - Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Communications

Selected members of the Board of Directors:
 * D. Scott Davis, Also Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS)
 * Linnet F. Deily, Former Ambassador to the World Trade Organization under George W. Bush, Former Vice Chairman of The Charles Schwab Corp.
 * Ivan G. Seidenberg, Also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Verizon Communications Inc.
 * Eric K. Shinseki, Retired General United States Army
 * John R. Stafford, Retired Chairman of the Board of Wyeth

Contact details
101 Columbia Road Morristown, NJ 07962 Phone: 973-455-2000 Fax: 973-455-4807 Web: http://www.honeywell.com

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * American Security Council
 * Defense contractors
 * Military-industrial complex
 * National Foreign Trade Council
 * National Missile Defense Contractors
 * Political influence of arms companies
 * Transatlantic Policy Network
 * Valis Associates
 * Lawrence A. Bossidy - former CEO

External articles

 * Peter Bauer, "Business booming for U.S. defense contractors", CorpWatch, August 20, 2005.
 * "Defense firms feast on Bush’s 'War on Terror'", Taipai Times/CorpWatch, August 29, 2005.
 * "Honeywell Agrees to $451 Million Lake Cleanup", Environment News Service/CorpWatch, October 13, 2006.